A commercial virtualization product offered by VMware for the Mac OS X operating system.
Questions tagged [vmware-fusion]
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How to fix VMWare Fusion Pro 10, "Cannot find a valid peer process to connect to"
I recently upgraded to macOS High Sierra and VMWare Fusion Pro 10.
My Windows 10 Pro VM will no longer run. When I open it with Fusion, I see the following message:
"New Features are avialable for your virtual machine.
To upgrade, power off this…
Michael Prescott
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How do I install VMware player on a Mac os X?
I went to their site, and downloaded a .bundle which automagically turned into a .txt file after downloading.
Long story short, I can't run the txt file because I guess Mountain Lion Mac os X isn't a strict Linux box and is missing some core…
Trip
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How can I simulate a slow machine in a VM?
I'm testing an AJAX-heavy web-application. I develop on a new Mac, but I use VmWare Fusion (currently 3.1.2) to test in Windows XP, using IETester to simulate older versions of IE.
This lets me see how older IE versions would render the site, but…
Nathan Long
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How do I find the IP address of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion?
Can I determine the IP of a virtual machine using VMware Fusion without actually entering the operating system running on the virtual machine? I'm looking for a menu option, command line, or otherwise that I can issue against the virtual image with…
Adron
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OSX 10.10 Yosemite slow on VMware
I was having OSX Mavericks 10.9 in Vmware. It was working fine with VMware Tools installed and SVGA Drivers also. When Yosemite released, I updated it from App Store.
I cam across many problems on this update.
Graphics are very bad
It is too much…
Programmer
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How to share a VPN connection in a VMWare Guest VM with the Host
The need
This question is relevant for all of those who want to bypass their corporate's annoying VPN, and access their work/corporate network from their private computer, especially if the corporate VPN client software can't run on their private…
Jonathan
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No /mnt/hgfs in Ubuntu guest under VMWare Fusion
I just installed Ubuntu 13.04 inside of VMware Fusion Pro 5. I have the virtual machine configured for read-only sharing of my home directory, but there's no /mnt/hgfs directory and there's no /etc/fstab line.
What can I do to mount my Mac home…
Lorin Hochstein
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Getting an error trying to set up shared folders on an Ubuntu instance of VMWare Fusion running on OSX
Receiving the following error:
Unable to update runtime folder sharing status: There was an error
mounting Shared Folders file system inside the guest operating system.
Running VMWare Fusion 5.0.2 on OS X 10.6.8, guest OS is Ubuntu 12.10 with…
fox
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How do I force VMware virtual machine to enter the BIOS setup
I am using VMware Fusion 2.0.6. I want to boot virtual machine from iso file. How do I get into bios and change boot options?
Željko Filipin
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Parallels vs Vmware Fusion for running Windows on Mac OS X
Has anyone used both of these? Is one clearly superior to the other? I notice they are the same price. Any pros and cons?
PowerApp101
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Can you shrink the sparse disk image of a Mac OS X guest OS in VMWare Fusion?
I use VMWare Fusion on my Mac to run a virtual Windows 7 machine, and the Microsoft IE compatibility Windows XP virtual machines.
In VMWare Tools on the Windows guest OSes, there’s a “Shrink” option that lets you reduce the size of the sparse disk…
Paul D. Waite
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VMware Fusion performance degrading after few hours
I've been having an issue with VMware Fusion for some time now, where the VM (running Windows) runs fine initially, but will slow down to a grind after some time (best guess is a couple of hours). It's so slow that there's even a delay when…
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Visual Studio: significant performance difference on VMware Fusion vs Bootcamp?
I've just purchased a new MacBook Pro and was looking at installing Windows 7 via Bootcamp, so that i can do Visual Studio development work, but i was thinking it would make more sense to move my non development stuff (email etc) to the Mac and…
Mark
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How do I convert a .vhd disk image to work with VMWare Fusion 2?
I’ve just installed VMWare Fusion 2 on my Mac.
Microsoft makes available some Virtual PC disk images containing different versions of IE, so that us humble web developers can test our code on…
Paul D. Waite
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How to convert a Physical OS X machine to Virtual Machine
I would like to migrate an existing OSX 10.9.5 machine to a 10.9.5 Guest VM running on a 10.10.1 host.
My situation is:
I own a 10.9.5 MBP that I use everyday. I have development tools on the machine that I am not sure work on Yosemite.
I bought a…
